I'm trying to find a pitch of a guitar string. Sound is coming in through mic at a sample rate of 44100. I'm using 2048 bites for a buffer size. Considering the Nyquist rate there is no point for using bigger buffer size. After recieving the data, I apply hanning window... and this is the point where I get confused. Should I use Lowpass filter in the time domain or take FFT first? If I would take FFT first, wouldn't it be easier to use just the first half of the samples, disregarding the other half, because I need frequencies in range of 50-1000? After FFT I will use Harmonic Product Spectrum to find fundamental frequency.
It really depends on your pitch detection algorithm, but why would you use a low-pass filter in the first place?
In addition, a guitar usually produces spectral information way beyond 1000Hz. Notes on the high E string easily produce harmonics at 4-5kHz and beyond, and these harmonics are exactly what will make your HPS nice and clear.